Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeals on his five-year prison sentence (plus a $20,000 fine) for evading $28,532 in 1948-49 income taxes, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 64, took a legal gamble, croaked an offer to lam for his native Italy, if the federals would take the heat off him. The Government's answer: quit stalling and get off to the penitentiary...
Otherwise, the 1956 big-league baseball season got off to a hot start last week in cold, dank weather. There were rookies in almost every lineup, but it was the big-name pros who provided the heat. Philadelphia's Robin Roberts, hoping to win 20 games for the seventh straight year, pitched a typical Robertsian game, was slammed for nine hits, five for extra bases, yet beat the Dodgers 8-6. The Giants' Willie Mays performed some run-scoring aggression at home plate (see cut), personally accounted for the winning run over Pittsburgh, did the same the following...
Deductible Comfort. Air-conditioning manufacturers, who do something about the weather as well as complain about it, say that hot and cold spells still throw seasonal estimates out of kilter; e.g., demand rose 200% during a six-week heat wave last July and August. But the trend to bigger, more expensive units has sharply reduced impulse buying. Government agencies also have boosted non-seasonal equipment sales. For example, the Federal Housing Administration recently approved inclusion of central air-conditioning in basic home-mortgage loans. The Internal Revenue Service permits sufferers from hay fever, asthma and heart disease to deduct...
...fuel, will even run on peanut oil. It needs no crankshaft or connecting rods, and it has so few rotating parts that friction and wear are far less than in standard piston engines. Furthermore, unlike the gas turbine, its turbine wheel runs cool, hence does not require costly heat-resistant alloys. General Motors has no immediate plans to produce the free-piston engine. But G.M.'s engineers hope that its debut in dealers' salesrooms is not many years away...
...thorough and determined attempt to get the racketeers out of the unions--an attempt which must be supported by the AFL-CIO, federal, State and local authorities, by business management, and by continued pressure from the press and public. As Riesel urged from his hospital bed, "Keep the heat...